The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-01-06
NOTES ABOUT TOWN.
Personals and Other News Items Told in
Short Paragraphs.

= Let us improve the new year by the
one just past.
- Pay up your subscription, if you have
not already paid u.s.
Our merchants report good sales with
their holiday goods
Our Warehouses are again open for
the sale of leaf tobacco.
We learn Dr. w. H. Wheeler is lying
very ill with rheumatism.
= The NJ. P. S. S. now meets at 2:3o nH
M, instead of $50 a. m., Sundays.
- The merchants all report general re-
Taxation since the holiday rush.
The usual week of prayer is being OBJ
served in the Salem Church.
A Temperance Reform Club is to be |
organized among the colored people of the |
city.
= The first Quarterly Conference of the
NJ P Church will be held next Monday
night.
= Messrs. Henry and Will Shaffner, and
Henry Starbuck returned to school at Chap
ell Hill this week.
The SENTINEL wishes its thousands of
readers, one and all happy, bright and
prosperous New Year.
= The people of Waughtown and vicini-
ty partook heartily during the holidays in
wheel-barrow rolling, etc.
- The Salem Fire Company gave an
oyster supper on New Years Eve, from
which they realized $4,000.
- The Academy and Boys School after
vacation of more than week during the
holidays, re-opened Tuesday.
Col. A. H. Belo, publisher, of the
Galveston News, and family are visiting the
family of Mr.. Robt. Belo. in Salem.
| - All our readers should not fail to read
| the opening chapters of Mrs. Amis' interest
ing story. They will be amply repaid
- DR.. E. A. Won Schweinetz, a former
resident of Salem, but more recently of Ger
many, returned to Salem the past week.
= Mr.. R. B. Kerner, who has been
spending the holidays at his old home in
| KernersyilIe, returned to this CITY Monday.
- Miss Lucy Revies, of Raleigh, who has
been visiting relatives in the city for some
time past, returned home one day last week.
= There was splendid skating during the
first of the week, and the young folks of the
City were out both day and nigh engaged in
the fascinating pastime.
- The cold wave has launched out upon
US, and our ice men are busily engaged fill
ing their houses with ice from three to foul
inches in thickness.
1t was rumored in Greensboro last
week that a duel had taken place in Wins
ton, but if there was any truth in the report
it was kept remarkably quiet here.
: Two prisoners escaped from the ne,
Jail Friday evening by pricing open the eel
with the help of broom handle and "a piec
of iron they got from the sewer grating.
- The old Merchants Hotel is being re
r painted and re-modelled in general. TIL
r Central is likewise receiving Improvement.
4 We learn both will be re-opened shortly.
A reception was given on New Year
: night by the Salem Academy to lady an
5 gentlemen friends which was very plea
: ant affair, and to many the happiest ever
u of the holidays.
: = Mr.. H. E. Fries, member-elect to tt
4 General Assembly of North Carolina, fro
d this county, left on Monday evening ft
% session yesterday wednesday,
8 = The first collection of the year will
l. taken up in the Moravian Church ne
y Sunday morning for Foreign Missions. I'll
l. collections taken up at this church durir
eff the past year amounted to $1045.O5.
- Mr.. Cicero Tise is moving his stock
furniture into his new iron-front store
. Main Street. Mr.. II. C. Wooters put Il
large steam elevator into position fe
q days ago which works like charm.
Id - The energetic and enterprising you.
D. firm of Messrs. Giersh, Senseman & G.
C. have purchased the eutire stock of gener
k merchandise of H. w. Fries, in Salem,
~ which store they will remove their stock fro
le the store they now occupy.
- At meeting of the Juvenile Missile
airy Society of the Salem Home Sund
% School last Sabbath, Mr.. Will x. Coley y
- elected President, B. Wurreschke Viz
President, Miss Minnie Winkler Secretal
:. and Miss Mamie Thomas Treasurer. T
- Society donated S23 to the Alaska missio
!. for the sufferers in the cold regions.
ad - Two very rare incidents are told te
on SENTINEL reporter of two little school ch
tn dren in the Twin-City, one OF whom c